Short Course
Supply Chain Security and Risk Management
Learn to make better decisions using intelligence analysis and risk assessment. Evaluate supply chain security through data, geography, and operations
Current Offerings
Use Security Intelligence to Make Better Risk Decisions
Supply chain risk is difficult to manage when you can't see where threats and vulnerabilities exist. You'll build a structured approach to evaluating those risks using principles of security intelligence, geography, and supply chain management.
You'll improve your ability to:
Understand security intelligence and how it applies to the supply chain
Use new technologies to assess threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences
Identify and respond to emerging threats
Apply intelligence to mitigate supply chain risk and build resilience
Who Should Attend?
This supply chain risk management program is designed for mid- to senior-level managers, directors, and cross-functional professionals responsible for supply chain security and risk. It is especially relevant for those who assess threats, identify vulnerabilities, or protect supply chain operations.
Intelligence is about reducing uncertainty of competitive or opposing actions. Reducing uncertainty often requires information that our competitors prefer to keep concealed."
Robert Clark
Geospatial Intelligence: Origins & Evolution
What You’ll Learn
Use location intelligence to inform supply chain security decisions
Apply real-world security analysis principles to supply chain challenges
Understand security roles and responsibilities across the supply chain
Examine the customer's role in end-to-end supply chain security
Identify and assess potential security gaps
Use network analysis to evaluate supply chain security
Compare public- and private-sector approaches to security challenges
Integrate principles of intelligence, geography, and supply chain management
Assess risk based on threats, vulnerabilities, and potential organizational consequences
Use intelligence to inform supply chain risk mitigation
Use real-world cases to identify vulnerabilities before they create broader supply chain risks
Apply intelligence analysis and modeling to make more informed risk decisions
Use established frameworks to assess risk consistently across the supply chain
Practice applying these approaches to challenges you may face in your organization
Put What You Learn to Work
Throughout the program, you’ll apply security intelligence to supply chain risk, building a more systematic approach to identifying vulnerabilities and making informed decisions.
You'll leave ready to:
Recognize vulnerabilities across your supply chain
Evaluate threats in the context of your organization
Assess the potential consequences of identified risks
Make more informed decisions to strengthen supply chain security and resilience
Customize this Program
All programs and delivered to groups of 10 or more. A member of our team will reach out to discuss your goals and explore the right fit for your group. You can also reach us directly at 800-311-6364.
Meet the Faculty
Dan Steiner, MGIS
Owner, Orion Mapping and Faculty Affiliate Smeal College of Business
Dan Steiner is a geospatial scientist with 30 years of experience spanning the U.S. Army, the pharmaceutical industry, and consulting. As owner of Orion Mapping, he applies imagery analysis and geospatial intelligence to help commercial, government, and community clients turn location data into business insights.
Susan B. Purdum, CTL
Associate Teaching Professor, Smeal College of Business
Susan Purdum helps learners tackle supply chain challenges using problem-analysis tools and systems perspectives. Her engineering, manufacturing, and logistics background brings real-world context to the classroom. In many of her industry roles, she was the first female engineer, engineering manager, or plant manager.
Ed Glantz
Director of Master's Program and Teaching Professor, Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
Ed Glantz specializes in enterprise security and cybersecurity, backed by 18 years of global manufacturing and distribution experience. His graduate teaching connects cybersecurity principles to complex organizational challenges. He is a licensed professional engineer and CISSP.
Professional Certificate
Supply Chain Certificates
This course is one of three programs required for our Supply Chain certificate. Complete the programs in any order and develop expertise in supply chain operations, leadership, and management.
Frequently Asked Questions
You'll learn approaches for identifying supply chain threats and vulnerabilities, assessing potential consequences, and making more informed risk decisions. This program also covers security intelligence, location intelligence, network analysis, resilience, risk mitigation, and systems approaches to supply chain security.
Security intelligence helps organizations reduce uncertainty by bringing together information about threats, vulnerabilities, geography, networks, and operating conditions. In this program, you'll explore how intelligence principles can inform risk assessment and help you anticipate and respond to supply chain security threats.
This program approaches supply chain risk as a function of threats, vulnerabilities, and potential consequences. You'll examine methods for identifying security gaps, evaluating supply chain networks, and using intelligence and analysis to support risk management decisions.
The program is delivered live remote, giving working professionals access to instructor-led learning and application activities without requiring travel.
Our Learning Solutions Associate can hold a seat for you in the program. A reservation does not commit you until you submit the online registration form. To reserve your spot, email our office.
A 10% reduced rate on live remote delivery is available to military and government employees, Penn State alumni, individuals pursuing a professional certificate, teams of three or more from the same organization, and CSCR corporate sponsors or affiliated groups.
Yes. This program can count toward a . Complete three qualifying programs at your own pace to earn the certificate. Note: Each program can only count toward one certificate.
After you register, you’ll gain access to your personal learning portal. There, you’ll find pre-program assignments, information about faculty and fellow participants, plus other program resources.
Accepted applicants can transfer to another section if the transfer is arranged more than four weeks before the program begins. Additional transfers are subject to a charge of 10% of the current program fee. A sponsoring company may also identify a replacement candidate, provided the candidate is accepted into the program.
Refunds are based on when written notice of withdrawal is received:
More than six weeks before the program begins: Full refund
Between two and six weeks before the program begins: 50% refund
Two weeks or less before the program begins: No refund
All withdrawals, transfers, and substitutions must be confirmed in writing by the registered participant or their agent. If written notification is not received, the full program fee will be assessed.
Penn State may cancel or postpone a program due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. If a program is canceled, registration fees will be refunded; however, Penn State is not responsible for other related expenses, including airline or travel agency cancellation or change fees. If a program is postponed, you may receive a refund or transfer your program fee to another session.
If you have questions about transfers or cancellations, please contact us.